Learn A Little, Link A Lot! (from
Rachel)
What is this, you ask?
This is a post to allow all of us bloggers to get to know each other a little better.
Here is what you do:
1. Post 10 things about yourself.
2. Post 5 blogs that you really enjoy to go to.
3. Post 1 thing that you received for FREE lately that you are really excited about!
4. Come back here and comment so we can all learn a little bit about you.
If you don't have a blog, please post a comment here with your things.I would love to know a little more about all you wonderful people!
(Please don't post things that will make you a target for spam or otherwise not nice people.)
10 Things:
1) Showers do more to get me going in a morning than anything else.
2) If I go more than 24 hours without reading the news, I get very antsy.
3) My friends are worried about the upcoming release of the
Palm Pre, because I will finally be connected to the internet anywhere I go, which will make me very happy.
4) I have been building websites for 12 years. Thanks to this meme, I am now obsessed with finding an archived/cached copy of my early websites. They were HIDEOUS. But so was every website in those days.
5) My hands shake and have since Spring 2000. The only time they don't shake is when I'm drunk.
6) Despite drinking 6-18 cups of a coffee a day from early-July 2008 through Thanksgiving 2008, I quit cold turkey with no noticeable withdrawal symptoms.
7) Two of my biggest pet peeves are weak handshakes and chewing with one's mouth open.
8) I have been using Google since 1998ish, but really dislike Blogger.
9) My ex-roommate and I became friends because of a West Wing trivia contest, where we would test the other on the most inane trivia from the first four seasons. Of course, we were the only ones who could judge whether our answers were correct.
10) Despite loving to cook and being really good at it, I don't like cooking just for me, so I often eat sandwiches and other fast meals when alone.
Five blogs:
1) Lifehacker - The best "Getting Things Done" (and technology/computer) blog. (http://www.lifehacker.com)
2) Political Wire - important political headlines. It is generally free of commentary, but when there are comments, they tend "Left-of-Center" (http://www.politicalwire.com)
3) Slick Deals - a wonderful collection of deals (where I found the free Quiznos sub instructions) (http://www.slickdeals.net/)
4) SCOTUSBlog: One stop shop for all things Supreme Court (http://www.scotusblog.com/)
5) XKCD: The best comic strip ever (yes, I think it is better than Fox Trot). It's not a blog, but it has an RSS Feed! http://xkcd.com
Free thing:
-H/t from
Rachel-A new watch from my grandma (well, it took two years of storing up Macy's credit from taking back clothes I didn't want)
